Also serving the communities of De Luz, Rainbow, Camp Pendleton, Pala and Pauma
Also serving the communities of De Luz, Rainbow, Camp Pendleton, Pala and Pauma
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The Fallbrook Public Utility District has set a Feb. 26 hearing for a 5% increase in the per diem pay board members receive. A 4-0 FPUD board vote Jan. 22, with Charley Wolk absent, set the Feb. 26 hearing date for the increase. The pay for meetings would increase from $127.63 to $134.01. FPUD's Administrative Code stipulates that per diem pay is to be reviewed annually, and any increase is limited to 5%. A recommended increase requires a public hearing to be set, and the increase will not take effect until at least 60 days...
Due to the $5,000 valuation threshold for which donations to the County of San Diego must be approved by the San Diego County Board of Supervisors, the $60,000 donation the Fire Safe Council of San Diego County offered to the San Diego County Fire Protection District went before the county supervisors Jan. 23. The vote was 5-0 in favor. The money will fund the purchase of long-term fire retardant for high fire risk areas. In addition to accepting the donation, the motion authorized Board of Supervisors Chair Nora Vargas to...
The Jan. 16 meeting of the Fallbrook Community Planning Group included a recommendation to support a Major Use Permit for a public safety wireless communications facility in the 2400 block of Via Rancheros and formally a denial of a request for a Major Use Permit for a wireless communications facility at the Fallbrook Regional Health District’s Community Health and Wellness Center in the 1600 block of East Mission Road. Eight votes are required to approve any recommendation, and if seven or fewer votes are in favor, the r...
The Fallbrook Community Planning Group voted for its 2024 officers Jan. 16, and Stephani Baxter is the new first vice-chair. Baxter had been the second vice-chair and Roy Moosa had been the first vice-chair. The two exchanged positions with Moosa becoming the second vice-chair. Eileen Delaney was re-elected as the planning group chair and Jim Loge was re-elected as the secretary. “I’m absolutely honored to be considered for something like this and ready to continue the work and looking forward to continuing the work with Eil...
The Rainbow Municipal Water District board held a special meeting Dec. 19, 2023, and a 5-0 vote approved a contract with Pacific Hydrotech Corporation to replace the West Lilac, Rancho Amigos, and Dentro De Lomas pump stations. Pacific Hydrotech, which is headquartered in Perris, was awarded a contract for $5,657,500. The board action also approved an addendum to the Programmatic Environmental Report to cover the Rancho Amigos Pump Station while authorizing a notice of exemption for the other two stations which were...
The Fallbrook Community Planning Group has recommended that the County of San Diego provide a stop control for northbound Orange Avenue traffic at Kalmia Street. The recommendation was approved on a 12-0 vote Jan. 16. Steve Brown and Tom Harrington were absent. Roy Moosa, who chairs the planning group’s Circulation Committee, abstained. “That just came from somebody who has concerns,” said FCPG Chair Eileen Delaney. If a community member desires a regulatory change for a public road and the request is made to the county’s Dep...
The county’s Zoning Administrator approved a Minor Use Permit to convert a single-family home in the 2100 block of Gum Tree Lane into a preschool. The Jan. 18 decision of Conor McGee, who was the Zoning Administrator that day, allows a preschool with up to 50 children although typical operations will involve approximately 30 children up to 6 years old along with five employees. The permit also limits the school portion of the 20.26-acre parcel to the 3.7 acres which have been graded and include the single-family residence. T...
This season's starting lineup for Fallbrook High School's girls basketball team consists of senior Claire Nordeen, junior Janice Garcia, and freshmen Grace Nordeen, Emery Pizzo, and Taylor Thomas. "We're losing a key piece, but we have three really good pieces to build around for the next four years," said Fallbrook coach Trae Harrison. The lack of previous high school varsity experience for three of the starters hasn't hindered Fallbrook's season record. A 66-23 home victory...
Fallbrook High School’s boys basketball team led for most of the Warriors’ Jan. 18 home game against Valley Center, but the Jaguars made the winning basket with four seconds left for a 58-56 victory at Fallbrook’s expense. “We learned we’ve got to play 32 minutes. We have to play and compete 32 minutes,” said Fallbrook coach Jonathan Terry. “We’ve got to finish the game like we started.” The result gave Fallbrook a 1-2 record in Valley League play along with a 7-10 overall mark. After the first three league contests for each...
The Jim Londos Memorial wrestling tournament was held Jan. 13 at Orange Glen High School, and two Fallbrook High School wrestlers placed. Ricardo Lopez earned fifth place in the 108-pound bracket. Fisher Phillips took sixth among 140-pound wrestlers. Fallbrook coach Tom Brockson entered three wrestlers in the Temecula Valley Battle for the Belt tournament Jan. 12-13 at Temecula Valley High School and three grapplers in the Jim Londos Memorial. Fallbrook also had a dual meet...
The National Fire Protection Association has response time standards based on population density and a community's expectations. Although density would classify Fallbrook and Bonsall as urban areas, the road network which affects travel time is more appropriate for a suburban area and the Dec. 12 North County Fire Protection District board meeting included adopting an updated Effective Response Force Standard which classifies Fallbrook and Bonsall as suburban. The board’s 5-0 vote adopted the standard which increases the t...
The Mission Hills Invitational wrestling tournament Jan. 6 at Mission Hills High School included a second-place result for Fallbrook High School junior Nic Brockson and third place for Fallbrook senior Devin Huntington. "It went good. It was a really tough tournament," said Fallbrook coach Tom Brockson. The Warriors began 2024 competition with Fallbrook's first Valley League dual meet of the year Jan. 4. The Warriors hosted Del Norte, who obtained a 45-35 victory. "It came...
The San Luis Rey Training Center along with the Los Alamitos Race Course barns rely on subsidies from the Southern California Stabling and Vanning Fund to help cover the expenses which allow the horses stabled at those facilities to be ready for racing. The California Horse Racing Board meeting Thursday, Dec. 14, approved the 2024 Stabling and Vanning financial and operational plans which budget $3,268,500 for San Luis Rey. The plan was approved on a 4-0 vote with Damascus Castellanos, Gregory Ferraro, Oscar Gonzales and...
The Rotary Club of Bonsall helped decorate the Rotary International float in the 2024 Tournament of Roses Parade. Ten chapter members traveled to Pasadena on Dec. 30 to help decorate the Rotary float. The theme of this year's Rose Parade was "Celebrating a World of Music" and the Rotary International float was titled "Clean Water – the Music of Life." "It was really cool. We were honored to be able to help," said Rotary Club of Bonsall president Joseph Clevenger. Rotary I...
A water billing and service agreement between the Eastern Municipal Water District and the Fallbrook Public Utility District has been approved by both boards. Eastern’s board voted 3-0 Jan. 3, with Jeff Armstrong and Randy Record absent, to approve the agreement for Eastern to be FPUD’s wholesale water provider. A Jan. 4 special meeting of the FPUD board had a 5-0 vote in favor of the agreement. “This was a very important issue for the Fallbrook Public Utility District,” said FPUD general manager Jack Bebee. On July 10, San...
San Luis Rey Training Center filly Daddysruby and former San Luis Rey colt Watsonville won graded stakes races on Opening Day for the Santa Anita Park winter meet Tuesday, Dec. 26. Daddysruby, who is trained by Peter Miller, won the Grade 1 La Brea Stakes. Watsonville, who is trained by Mark Glatt and was at San Luis Rey before beginning his racing career, won the Grade 2 Mathis Mile Stakes. The La Brea Stakes was a seven-furlong dirt race for three-year-old fillies. Nine horses competed, and Daddysruby had the inside post...
The first two-day wrestling tournament of the season for Fallbrook High School was the Thursday and Friday, Dec. 21-22, Lakeside Holiday Invitational at Lakeside High School in Lake Elsinore, and Fallbrook junior Nic Brockson won four 126-pound matches before losing in the championship match. Brockson won his first two matches by pins in the first period and his next two matches by decision. El Dorado High School of Placentia senior Isaiah Quintero won the weight class championship by pinning Brockson in the first period of t...
Chris Toth is now the goalkeeper for the Tacoma Stars, but the 2007 Fallbrook High School graduate began his Major Arena Soccer League career with the San Diego Sockers. Toth returned to San Diego for the Stars’ Saturday, Dec. 30, game against the Sockers at Pechanga Arena and set the all-time MASL record for saves. Toth entered the Dec. 30 game needing three saves to tie Tacoma teammate Danny Waltman, whose off-season rotator cuff and bicep tendon surgery has kept him from playing during the 2023-2024 season. Toth made t...
Fallbrook native, Stuart Reeder and his band, Woods Witch, a local San Diego band, has just returned from its first West Coast tour. The tour started June 9 with the release of Warmth and Comfort, their first release as a full band, and a headlining set with four other bands at San Diego metal venue Brick by Brick in San Diego. Musicologist Jameson Foster said of Woods Witch on his youtube channel after the Cascadian Midsummer 2023 Festival June 16-18, "Woods Witch, a San Dieg...
After eight years in the process, the traffic light on South Mission and Green Canyon went active on Tuesday, Nov. 22. Community requests to have a signal at Green Canyon stemmed from multiple accidents and deaths at the intersection. The proposed signal at Green Canyon and South Mission Road was first slated to be discussed during a Department of Public Works (DPW) Traffic Advisory Committee (TAC) in December 2014 but was pulled off that agenda to allow the Fallbrook...
Fallbrook High School’s boys cross country team began Valley League competition Sept. 30 with a fourth-place result at the league cluster meet at Kit Carson Park in Escondido. “It went really, really well,” said Fallbrook head coach Marco Arias. Team scores utilize the positions of a school’s first five finishers; the sixth and seventh runners are not scored but can add points to opponents’ totals. San Pasqual’s boys won the meet with 47 points. Mission Hills had 66 points for second place. Ramona was third with 69 points....
The agreement between the Rainbow Municipal Water District and Tri Pointe Homes for the Citro development has been amended. Rainbow's board voted 5-0, Sept. 28, to approve an amendment to the annexation agreement, to authorize Rainbow general manager Tom Kennedy to execute that amendment on behalf of the district, to approve the amendment to the participation agreement for the Rice Canyon Pipeline facilities, and to find that the changes do not create a new situation which would require updating the 2020 addendum to the Envir...
The Fallbrook Community Planning Group adopted a policy for social media use involving official planning group matters while also approving a website and Facebook page and selecting Steve Brown as the webmaster. The social media policy required a second reading to be adopted and added into the planning group's bylaws, and a 13-0 vote July 19 with Tom Harrington and Kim Murphy absent approved that second reading. A 14-0 vote June 21 with Stephani Baxter out of town and not having Zoom teleconference ability set the July 19...
The county's Planning Commission approved a Major Use Permit for Fallbrook Hacienda Winery. The Planning Commission's 7-0 vote July 9 also made a finding that the previous environmental Mitigated Negative Declaration with an addendum adequately addresses California Environmental Quality Act requirements. The permit approves an existing event venue which is currently not permitted and also approves the construction of ancillary event facilities and a small winery and vineyard. Fallbrook Hacienda Winery is in the 4100 block of...
Brady Hoff will follow his Fallbrook High School football career with gridiron activity for the University of Jamestown, which is in North Dakota. Hoff was given an athletic scholarship to play for the Jimmies, who are in the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics. "It was hard work and definitely something not everyone can do. It's an honor to have been able to earn one, and I'm excited for the journey," Hoff said. Hoff was also considering Sterling College, which is in Kansas, before deciding on the University...
